Speaking Roles for Rand and Ron Paul at the Republican National Convention?

Politico reports:

...a top Paul staffer shed more light Wednesday on the political calculus [on the timing of Rand's endorsement of Romney].

“From a practical matter you have to endorse the candidate before the convention. Romney is going to get the nomination no doubt about that at all, and so it behooves everyone to have Senator Paul endorse him before the convention,” James Milliman, Paul’s state director, told a Louisville Young Republicans meeting in the above video from Kentucky’s Insight Channel 2. “This could enable Senator Paul to have a prime speaking role at the convention and his dad to have a prime speaking role at the convention, so I think all those things factored in.”